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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am 38 and haven't written anything significant by hand since college, much less in cursive. By law school, everyone brought a laptop to class and took notes like that. I use cursive for the occasional thank you note, but that's it, and I certainly don't care if people write notes in cursive to me. In a professional context, you'd better be sending your thank you note by email. My evaluation is done by the end of the day or the next day at the latest, so anything received after that achieves nothing, plus I hate snail mail cluttering up my office. If parents want their kids to learn cursive for social reasons, they should teach it themselves. This is a waste of class time.[/quote]

I completely agree. Unfortunately, people in their 70s and 80s who vote in mass get very upset about cursive being removed from curriculum.  Some states have even passed laws mandating cursive.

I've had some heated conversation with my parents and their friends in their 70s about kids learning cursive. They get so worked up about it.[/quote]

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